Captured this Osprey with it's breakfast while on vacation in Ft. Myers. First shot's with my Nikon D200 with VR 70-300. F8, Shutter125, ISO100. Just cropped, so far.
Ed
Nice wing position and catch. The image looks a bit underexposed and I would put the bird further to the left in the frame to give him more room to fly into. Could you post complete techs? I would have gone to ISO 200 for higher shutter speed. Keep them coming!
I have to agree with Axel on this one. Curves in photoshop will help you with that. Composition is not ideal but you can add more canvas to the right of the frame. If you have very little photoshop skills, Artie's digital guide would be a good start.
nice shot. the fish is great with it's open mouth and all the blood. I agree with Axel on the exposure. I also would add a little blue canvas to the right and remove it from the left. This gives the impression of the bird flying into the picture, not out of it.
If this is among the first shots you have taken with your new rig, you must be really happy with it! Agree with Axel that the image is underexposed, but what a great fish ... good timing on your part to catch such a nice flight pose. The composition can be improved in PS as mentioned above. Looking forward to seeing more of your images.
Thanks to all, for your feedback! I will adjust in Photoshop. I sold off my film equipment and purchased this used D200 in January. My family and I went on vacation in February. Like a dope, I did not read the manual, or have any time to learn the D200. I entered the custom wildlife program off of Nikonians the night before I went out shooting. I shoot this osprey along with many other decent captures. I get back home to check out my first shots, I was happy until I start to look at my menu settings. Like a real dork, I did not change the menu over to the custom wildlife program that I enererd the night before. So it was shot in the previous owners settings, which was JPEG basic, no exposure comp and in program mode.
I spent the whole day reading the manual, playing around with settings, getting comfortable with my new camera. Spent every spare moment on vacation at Ding, beach, Corkscrew, Cape Coral shooting in the correct program in RAW.
As of yet, still have not become comfortable with Potoshop or Capture.
Ed
@Ed. It pays to read the manual :-)
Don't use the wildlife program. They camera can never know what's correct for a given situation. I normally chose the aperture and let the camera find the shutter speed or I work in manual mode. It's important to learn how to correct exposure with your camera, for example in the osprey shot an exposure compensation of about 2/3 f-stops would have helped to brighten the underside a bit.
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